Call for Applications - UC Berkeley

Overview of the University of California, Berkeley campus from the Berkeley Lab, from up the hills and south-westward. California, USA.Photo: by User:Introvert (Own work) [CC BY-SA 2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons

The Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation supports cooperation between Austria and the United States through research and teaching projects relating to the U.S. in economics and the social sciences. This may also include projects in other academic areas as long as they address problems of the social- and economic sciences. Ideally, projects focus on the following key areas:

The future of industry as seen from a social science and economic perspective

Work profiles of the future – dual education & apprenticeship

In this context, the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation invites applications for the following projects of scientific cooperation with the University of California, Berkeley for the academic year 2017/18, coordinated by the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley:

2 PhD students at the University of California, Berkeley for a duration of three months and a stipend of $ 6.000 (+ $500 Berkeley Visiting Fee).

The timeframe for the stay at Berkeley can be chosen freely between September 2017 and June 2018. The Institute of European Studies will lend the necessary support on campus and will furnish office space to the best of its ability.

Application materials and an invitation by a contact at the University of California, Berkeley must be received by March 5th, 2017 .